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| 41. |  | Sharon Olds (1942 - present)
Sharon Olds was born in 1942 in San Francisco. She was raised as a "hellfire Calvinist." After graduating from... |
| 42. |  | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW, whom Griswold describes as the greatest American poet, was born at Portland, Maine... |
| 43. |  | Dylan Thomas (1914 - 1953)
One of the best-known poets of the twentieth century, Dylan Thomas was born in 1914 in Swansea, a small indust... |
| 44. |  | Robert Hayden (1913 - 1980)
Robert Hayden, born Asa Bundy Sheffey in Detroit, Michigan, was raised in a slum called Paradise Valley. Hayde... |
| 45. |  | Seamus Heaney (1939 - present)
Seamus Heaney was born in April 1939, the eldest member of a family which would eventually contain nine childr... |
| 46. |  | Spike Milligan (1918 - 2002)
"Spike" Milligan was born in Ahmednagar, India, on 16 April 1918 to an Irish-born officer in the British Army ... |
| 47. |  | Robert Lowell (1917 - 1977)
Robert Lowell was born in Boston, Massachusetts to a distinguished family; his ancestors include poets James R... |
| 48. |  | Gary Soto (1952 - present)
Gary Soto (b. 1952) was born in Fresno, California, to working-class Mexican American parents. He grew up in t... |
| 49. |  | John Donne (1572 - 1631)
John Donne was born in London into an old Roman Catholic family at a time when anti-Catholic feeling in Englan... |
| 50. |  | Ted Kooser (1939 - present)
Ted Kooser was born in Ames, Iowa in 1939. He received his B.A. from Iowa State and his M.A. in English from t... |
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